"If scientifically unsupportable practices are surprisingly common with medical massage therapists, they are close to universal among barely-trained and untrained bodyworkers. Many of them aspire to greater skill, but usually don’t do so by studying orthopedics and physical therapy — a project that could occupy anyone for a lifetime — but instead by increasing their repertoire of certifications in proprietary hands-on techniques, most of which are either silly and/or medically unimportant (i.e. pleasant and harmless, but producing no significant therapeutic effect for any important health problem — hot stone massage would be a good example of this).
"And that is why most people still go to a doctor or physiotherapist when they have an obvious injury."
The link below is one of the best and most recent and complete science-based reviews of the state of research on the effects of massage. If one is interested in availing themselves of this procedure, one had best click on and read the link below.
A review of the science of massage therapy ... such as it is
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